2 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 



MEETING STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 

 February 7. 



Meeting was called to order at 11:00 a. m. with President Cameron 

 in the chair. I 



The following members responded to roll call: Cameron, Olson, Corey, 

 Weaver, Davis, Reeves, Curtin, Curtiss, Sheldon and Escher. 



The secretary read the minutes, commencing with the meeting of the 

 State Agricultural Convention and the Iowa Association of County and 

 District Fair Managers held at the Savery Hotel on December 11th and 

 concluding with the executive committee meeting on February 6th. Presi- 

 dent Cameron announced if there were no additions or corrections to the 

 minutes they would stand approved as read. The minutes were approved. 



Mr. Curtiss moved that the executive committee be authorized to add 

 lo the contract let to Potts Bros, for consructing cement v/alk on the 

 Iowa State Fair grounds, a ten-foot walk on the south side of Machinery 

 Avenue, extending from Rock Island avenue to the street car entrance. 

 Seconded by Mr. Sheldon. Motion prevailed. 



The board discussed the matter of the Iowa State College exhibit at 

 the state fair. The board members expressed the feeling that the col- 

 lege exhibit was not in keeping with the other exhibits at the fair and 

 they did not feel it was a credit to the Iowa State College. Action on 

 i.he matter was deferred until afternoon. 



Mr. Davis moved that the board adjourn until 2 : 00 p. m. Motion pre- 

 vailed. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The board convened at 2:00 p. m. with the same members present as 

 at the forenoon; also Mullen and Tow. 



Mr. Curtiss offered the following resolution: 



RESOLVED, That it is the sense of the State Board of Agriculture that 

 the exhibit made at the state fair in recent years by the Iowa State College 

 of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts do not compare favorably with the ex- 

 hibits made by similar institutions at other leading state fairs, and that 

 the Iowa State College exhibits do not creditably represent the work of 

 this great educational institution-, 



THEREFORE, we respectfully request the State Board of Education to 

 make provision for a more creditable exhibit. 



Mr. Sheldon moved the resolution be adopted. Motion seconded by 

 Curtin and unanimously adopted by the board. 



The board proceeded to take up the matter of revising the premium 

 list for the 1918 fair. 



Mr. Curtiss, superintendent of the horse department, made a number 

 of recommendations calling for the following changes in the amounts 

 citered : 



